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Oy vey. Will Sandy Shindleman's lawsuit to save Mayor Sam backfire?

And did he bait the trap with unsuspecting reporters and bloggers (yes, like us)? It seems (sob) like he did.

The
Mayor and his supporters must have been chortling at the news
Wednesday that Shindleman and his brother Robert have launched a
lawsuit against Warren for defamation.

But the suit is just a
smokescreen to disguise Shindleman's true goal---to crush blogger and
pamphleteer Gordon Warren into the dust for the Jewish community of
Winnipeg.

Warren first earned their ire six months ago by
circulating posters attacking alleged corruption at City Hall
manifested by "untendered contracts and shady land deals" which
benefited or involved 13 of Mayor Katz's associates, whom he listed.

That
had them running in circles like a yapping pack of chihuahuas howling
about anti-semitism. But there was one problem --- the only people
sewing yellow stars on those mentioned in the poster were members of
the Jewish community itself. Warren's poster never identified anyone
as Jewish and never made religion an issue in his allegations.

Of
course somebody went running to the police to get Warren charged with
hate crimes, but, to their astonishment, the police concluded that
there was no chance of a conviction.

Then, a couple of weeks
ago, Warren, whose website declares he is "gathering and sharing
evidence that will bring Sam Katz and his band of thieves to justice
before organized crime takes hold in Winnipeg", raised the ante. He
circulated a blog titled 'The Katz Doctrine' which consisted of ten
points along the lines of:

1) God is never angry about the Jews, just about the Non-Jews. 6) Jews may steal from Non-Jews. 7) Jews always have to try to deceive Non-Jews. 8) Jews may lie to Non-Jews. Jews may use lies (subterfuges) to circumvent a Gentile. 9) Every Jew is allowed to use lies and perjury to bring a Non-Jew to ruin.

Ouch.
The reaction was immediate. Even people who supported his provocative
poster because they were fed up with cronyism at city hall distanced
themselves from what appeared to be outright anti-semitism. We
certainly did.

But today it looks like 'The Katz Doctrine' post was a trap.

Snap.

The
mainstream media, especially the Winnipeg Free Press which is owned by
a prominent member of the Jewish community, went gaga over the news of
the Shindleman lawsuit. But before the night was over, Warren issued
his side of the story.http://bringkatztojustice.blogspot.ca/

As Nancy Grace puts it---Bombshell.

Warren said that the points in 'The Katz Doctrine' come from a single source, and its not Main Kampf. It's the Talmud.

The
Talmud, says Wikipedia, is considered second only to the Torah in
importance in the Jewish religion. One book is the written version of
Jewish oral law and and a second consists of commentaries by rabbis on
the written law and their differences.

It's not chicken liver.

Warren
may have put Shindleman's lawyer, Robert Tapper, in the position of
having to acknowledge that the ten points are indeed in the Talmud, but
that they are anti-semitic if distributed to non-Jews.

Warren
started a campaign against corruption. People began defending those
accused of engaging in cronyism by raising the red herring of
anti-semitism. If they want to make this a religious fight, he's giving
them one.

Imagine
a supoenaed Sam Katz answering questions about whether he believes the
Talmud to reflect the word of God. Imagine the headlines the next day.
"Winnipeg's Jewish Mayor says its okay for Jews to deceive Goyim.
Talmud says so."

A
civil defamation trial could go to a jury. Warren could ask that no
Jewish judge hear the case and no Jews be eligible to sit on the jury
because they could be expected to be biased. How that will fly?

Shindleman
and Tapper are banking that Warren can't afford a high-priced lawyer.
They should remember that the most dangerous man is the man who has
nothing to lose.

If Warren does manage to get Shindleman and
Katz under oath during examination for discovery, maybe we'll get some
answers finally about the secretive contracts Shindico got to build
four new firehalls. And what Katz knew about them and when. This
lawsuit could turn out to be terrific for public accountability.

Tapper
is going to court March 26 for an injunction to silence Warren and
take away his voice by keeping him from blogging about the lawsuit so
that Tapper and Shindleman can control the information through their
mouthpieces at the Free Press and the rest of the MSM.

But they should remember, this pisher has chutzpah to spare. And they're already in his trap.